Most of your healing journey will be about unlearning the patterns of self-protection that once kept you safe.

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.

Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.

There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.

Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.

How inspiringly beautiful it is to bloom inspite of life’s storms.

Don't be content with your judgments. They diminish you.

Before every great reward, comes the footprints of persistency, consistency, perseverance, courage, faith and patience.

What’s your poison or should I just waste my money by guessing something you probably won’t even drink? I’d much rather get you something you like.

Art destroys silence.

Today is a new day. Your future does not equal your past.

The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.

The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.

Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control.

I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades.